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Tony Elliott To Coach the Vols? Yes, Please!
He’d be perfect to lead the Tennessee football team. Here’s why.
If Tony Elliott wants to become the Tennessee Volunteers head football coach, new Vols athletic director Danny White should hire him post haste.
As mentioned before, Tennessee should strongly consider hiring a coach of color to lead their program (8:00).
Diversity is the way of the future, if not the present.
And when one tries to fathom why Tennessee football has fallen to the depths it has, one of the reasons is because they cling to the past.
Take allowing Phil Fulmer to finagle his way in to the athletic position three years ago.
Yes, Fulmer won a national championship in 1998 as a football coach, but in no way does that qualify him to lead an athletic department a generation later. In today’s day and age athletic directors simply don’t come from the football sideline.
“Athletic directors have changed,” Laurie Wilder, the President of Parker Executive Search Firm, told ESPN’s Dana O’Neil eight years ago. “They’re lawyers or CPAs or MBAs. The way they run their department is very different.”
Tennessee hired Parker Executive for their AD search that found White.
